NorCal Trip

So this is what I think would be about the coolest thing we could ever do. It would be a lot of driving, but totally worth it and relatively cheap for how long the trip is.

• Day 1: Drive from Provo to Coarsegold, CA, about 55 miles south of Yosemite Nat'l Park. Stay at roommate's grandparents house
• Day 2: Yosemite Nat'l Park. Do whatever hikes people want to do, possibly including Half Dome. Drive back to Coarsegold in the evening/night.
• Day 3: Drive to Danville to John's house. Spend the afternoon/evening in San Francisco seeing some sights. (Golden Gate Bridge bike ride, anyone?)
• Day 4: More San Francisco sights. Stay at John's house again.
• Day 5: Drive up to Auburn to Brent's house. Go boating all day on the nearby reservoir. Stay at Brent's house.
• Day 6: Drive home to Provo.

The actual planned travel distance is about 1868 miles if you include about 150 miles of miscellaneous travel. Using conservative numbers, gas would only cost about $50 per person for the whole trip! (30 miles/gallon [my mom's Prius gets between 40 and 45, if we averaged it all with the other cars it would be about 35 miles/gallon] and $3.30/gallon for gas).

I think the trip would be especially fun if we did it over 4th of July weekend, but that's a whole other discussion. Meanwhile, since travel costs are so cheap, we could see a symphony or a play for $20-50. Also, we could keep food costs down by buying our own food to prepare at the houses and having our own sandwiches/snacks for the drive rather than stopping at restaurants. We could probably do this whole trip at a cost of about $150/person or less.

Anyway, I just had to get it out there. I'll be trying to get people interested in the next week or so.